Perspectives

It wouldn’t be a complete stretch to suggest that public companies should charter government agencies, rather than the other way around, writes Anne Marie Knott.

In impeachment inquiries, constitutionally authorized bodies are using constitutionally granted powers, however politically and potentially partisan their effort. By contrast, coup attempts occur when political actors take extra-constitutional actions — most often using guns — to oust a chief executive, writes David Carter.

Watch this video for an overview of the work conducted through “The Divided City,” an urban humanities initiative at Washington University supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation that began in 2014. It has supported dozens of projects exploring the effects of spatial segregation.

Threatening the loss of tax exemption to hundreds of thousands of religious organizations, including many that serve the most vulnerable in our society, is not the way to go, writes John Inazu.

As the U.S. once again prepares for national elections, we hope that voters in the St. Louis region will join with elections administrators in strengthening our democratic processes, write Gena McClendon and Michael Sherraden.

Hong Kong is irreplaceable in the Asia-Pacific and hosts a complex and pivotal network of firms and financiers that has survived wars, revolutions and economic depressions, writes David Meyer.

The Collective Impact Team, comprised of three Civic Scholars in the Gephardt Institute for Civic and Community Engagement, shares online in interviews and essays about its projects to improve health outcomes in Guatemala, Uganda and the United States.

Ashley Hardin, at Olin Business School, co-writes an article in Scientific American about how even small acts of dishonesty, such as lying to spare another’s feelings or taking office supplies for personal use, can damage one’s ability to read others’ emotions.

Our research implies that even small acts of dishonesty can go a long way, leaving ripple effects that may undermine a fundamental building block of our humanity: social connection, writes Ashley Hardin.

Tamsen Reed, a Brown School student who has studied gun violence in St. Louis, writes an op-ed in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch about strategies that have worked in the past that the region’s leaders could employ today.